A genre of anime and manga that has become quite popular lately is monster girls. These are animes where the characters are half human and half monsters, yokai, animals, aliens, robots, or have non-human halves.
It is common for most anime to have some character that is not 100% human, sometimes they have cat tails and ears, horns or robotic pieces. The name of this genus in Japanese is Gijinka [擬人化] which means anthropomorphic.
Table of Content
Gijinka - Anthropomorphic characters
The Gijinka can refer to any character that mixes with non-human individuals, including inanimate objects, marks, or concepts. A small example is in the moe characters created to represent Mac or Windows.
Anthropomorphism has been present since prehistory and has a strong connection in ancient religions and mythologies, including 神道 in Japan. On the internet, one of the first characters 萌え ギジンカ that appeared was the iMac Girl in 1998.
Even 100% human characters that do some transformation like in the case of Cristo-chan, Ebola-chan, Starbucks-chan, Ipo-chan, Terra-chan and Clorox-chan classify as a Gijinka.
The pokemons were pioneers in becoming Moe Gijinka characters. A recent case was also written on our blog, the famous character Bowsette. The most popular animals in anthropomorphism in anime are cats and foxes.
In ancient cultures, non-human characters were also sensual and seduced boys. Even in Japan there is a legend of a spider that transforms itself into a seductive woman and marries a samurai.
Robotic characters, aliens, with cat parts and other animals are common, but there are cases of slime girls, snake girl, centaur, dragon, flower, zombie, vampire and the mermaid cliché.
The image above is from anime that appeared in our article "Strange things that Japan turned into moe girls". Gorilla girl, soda can girl and dragon girl.
The top monster girl anime - Monster girls
Thousands of anime have characters with monsters, if we were to list them all it would take a century. But as I'm stubborn I'll talk a little about the most popular and then list as many anime with monster girls that I know. I will also try to make a list of popular monster girl characters separated by categories.
Below I will briefly summarize each anime that I find popular and that the main focus is monster girls. They need to appear in most episodes and their strange appearance should be the highlight of the anime.
Let's start by talking about the most popular monster girl anime of all time:
Everyday Life with Monster Girls
This anime has a mermaid girl, snake girl, spider girl and even a centaur girl. As the name suggests, monster musume means monster girls and the rest of the name refers to the protagonist's daily life with the characters. Where most of the time the protagonist ends up being hurt.
Cube x Cursed x Curious
The anime by the images doesn't seem to be as sinister as the others, but it tells the story of a protagonist who finds in his basement a loli that is actually an instrument of torture from the middle ages, a sword girl and a girl with a magical garter belt..
Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon
This anime is quite popular and tells the story of a dragon girl who becomes an employee of a woman who works in an office named Kobayashi. The anime is quite popular and very funny, making it one of the most popular of the genre, luckily this is not a harem.
Houseki no kuni
This anime tells the story of girls who are precious stones living in a peaceful place and fighting against beings that try to take them to the moon. Houseki no Kuni is a masterpiece that resembles the tale of the famous Kaguya-Hime.
Rosario + Vampire
This work is quite popular and tells the story of a boy who goes to study in a school of monsters and meets a vampire girl and several other characters as a succubus. They claim that the manga is a thousand times better than the anime, which ended up becoming a generic re harem adaptation, but still managed to entertain me and become popular.
Demi-chan wa Kataritai
In this anime you find a snow girl, a vampire, a succubus and a headless woman. The biology teacher who likes non-human girls tries to understand the life of these monster girls or monster girls. Anime is not second only, it is quite popular in the genre.
Omamori Himari
This ecchi comedy anime tells the story of a boy who meets a half-cat girl, a slime girl, and a cup girl. What level have we reached?
Monogatari
A confusing and very popular series that is divided into several different animes, we need to make even a guide to watch monogatari. Among the characters, we have a girl who is part crab, cat, medusa, vampire, and some other quite unusual ones.
R-15
Concerns of a Centaur, the name already suggests a centaur protagonist, but many other monster girl characters appear in the work. The anime deals with the social life at the monster girls' high school.
Below is a list of the most popular anime and the types of Monster Girls, Gijinka or anthropomorphic characters that appear:
- High School DxD - Demon Girls;
- Sekirei - Aliens;
- Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?
- To love Ru - Aliens;
- Omamori Himari - Demon cat;
- Jashin-chan Dropkick - Demons and Snakes;
- Kaiju Girls;
- Petopeto-san - yokai;
- Dragon Crisis - Dragon Girl and Vampire Girl;
- Asobi ni Iku yo! - Cat aliens;
- Spice & Wolf - Fox Goddess;
- Outbreak Company - Elf, dog;
- Jitsu wa Watashi wa - Rogue;
- Durarara - Dulahan, headless horsewoman;
- Knights of Sidonia - Half alien girl;
- Elfen Lied - Alien;
Another list of Monster Girls - Monster Girls
We have already mentioned many anime with monster girls that are quite popular, but there are many other characters that are monster girls that appear in different anime, games and manga. Below we will try to make another list of these characters and their anime, games and manga.
Maybe you would also like to see animes sobre animais, some may have talking or anthropomorphic animals.
Unfortunately I won't identify the original work, but I'll make it bold when it's the name of an anime.
- Hyperdimension Neptunia - Video game girls;
- Seirei Tsukai no Blade Dance - Sword girls;
- Kantai Collection - Girls with combat weapons;
- Habanero-tan - Pepper girl;
- Kemono Friends;
- Shinka no Mi;
- Akikan;
- Gokicha;
- Kumatanchi
- K.R.T. Girls;
- Jewelpet:
- Magical Change;
- Robot Girls Z;
- Ryo-Ohki
- S Sega;
- Hard Girls;
- A Mare's Daughter Pretty Derby;
- O Mundo de Narue;
- Milk-san - Milk girl;
- Jalapeño-san - Jalapeno pepper girl;
OS-Tan are characters from operating systems, among them we have Hikaru Aizawa from Miscrosoft and Inori Aizawa from Internet Explorer.
Kemonomimi e Nekomimi
Another super popular way to represent monster girls in animes and mangas is using animal ears. These ears are usually referred to as Kemonomimi. The most popular are the cat ears called nekomimi.
Usually the Japanese represent these creatures using only ears, tails and paws, without taking away the human characteristics. They are easy to spread, because the animal's features can be easily conveyed simply by drawing the ears.
Pointed ears are by far the most common type, having been associated with everything from demons, elves, magical fairies, and even vulcans. In Japan, the ability to hear very well is called jigokumimi, which translates to “ears of hell.”
Some examples of characters with cat ears are:
| Neko's name | Anime Name |
| Holo | Espaço e Lobo |
| Inuyasha | InuYasha |
| take | Kamisama Kiss |
| Jibril | No Game No Life |
| Raphtalia | O Surgimento do Herói do Escudo |
| Black Rabbit | Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren't They? |
| Izuna Hatsune | No Game No Life |
| Tsugumi | Guilty Crown |
| Himari Noihara | Omamori Himari |
| milianna | Fairy Tail |
The Encyclopedia of Monster Girls
There are 2 very popular books called Monster Girls Encyclopedia that tells the story of over 100 different monster girls. This book/manga was written by Kenkou Cross and contains various sensual illustrations of monster girls and their stories. If you want to purchase the books, I will leave them below:
Some of the monster girls found in these books are: Succubus, Lesser Succubus, Slime, Red Slime, Queen Slime, Goblin, Hobgoblin, Werewolf, Werecat, Wererabbit, Weresheep, Alraune, Mandragora, Matango, Dryad, Honey Bee, Hornet, Grizzly, Harpy , Black Harpy, Cockatrice, Orc, Ogre, Arachne, Lamia, Medusa, Echidna, Lizardman, Salamander, Werebat, Centaur, Unicorn, Minotaur, Holstaur, Giant Ant, Ant Arachne, Mantis, Fairy, Pixie, Leanan Sidhe, Kesaran Pasaran, Elf, Dark Elf, Dwarf, Amazoness, Alice, Alp, Cyclops, Mermaid, Merrow, Sea Bishop, Nereid, Scylla, Charybdis, Sea Slime, Siren, Sahuagin, Bubble Slime, Large Mouse, Giant Slug, Devil Bug, Roper, Golem , Gargoyle, Mimic, Pot Devil, Mummy, Sphinx, Anubis, Girtablilu, Zombie, Ghoul, Ghost, Skeleton, Nightmare, Doppelganger, Dullahan, Vampire, Imp, Dark Slime, Beelzebub, Baphomet, Witch, Youko, Yuki-Onna, Red Oni, Crow Tengu, Kappa, Jurougumo, Inari, Angel, Dark Angel, Dark Priest, Dragon, Undine, Ignis, Sylph, Gnome, Dark Matter and lilim.
Monster Girls Products
Monsters Girls are perfect characters to cosplay. Or maybe you want to follow some monster girl story in manga, or you just want some accessory like cat ears. See what Amazon Brazil has for you:
I hope you enjoyed this article, if you liked it share and leave your comments. Thank you and see you next time!
